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Re: [VHFcontesting] strain relief loop for your vhf/uhf beams?

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Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] strain relief loop for your vhf/uhf beams?
From: "Jim Forsyth" <mail@jimforsyth.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:47:28 -0700
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What is the engineering reason that you need a strain relief loop even 
though the coax is supported and there is no pull on the connector?

I have a dozen antennas arranged just as you describe, no problems so far 
after six years.

Jim, AF6O

> Of course, taping the coax to the boom supports the coax so there is no 
> pull
> on the connector.  But the engineer in me says I should place a strain
> relief loop at the connector.
> Michael - N6MEF
 

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